Tag: Apollo 16
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How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation at the Moon
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay indoors — out of the Sun, televisions on. But for several…
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NASA Mourns the Passing of Astronaut John Young
Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, at the age of 87.